Is that not the sweetest little gumball machine? And check out the itty bitty orange slices! So cute!

Here's a treat from Japan that's gaining a huge following here in the U.S.:

Made by CW reader Ann N., and her first-ever attempt at fondant! Rock on, Ann!

Pocky! They're little stick wafers dipped in chocolate, and quite addictive. I love this design, and the mini Pockys on the cupcakes are adorable.

And finally, lets say your sister has a birthday coming up, and she's been training and eating ridiculously healthy for a long time, so she can't WAIT to have something really good (ie bad) on her big day. What kind of cake do you make for her?

Why, an asparagus one, of course.

Bwahaha! So mean, right?

Or is it?

Now hold on to your hats, my dear Wreckies, 'cuz this next photo will blow your mind:

It's CAKE!!

Made by the amazingly talented Sweetapolita, and found by @PeeWeeHerman. (Yes, *the* Pee Wee Herman. Heh.) Hit the link for progress pics and the recipe!

Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets (at) Cake Wrecks (dot) com.

UPDATE: To those of you having a hard time believing the cake box is actually cake, there's a photo of the bride and groom cutting it here.

On the fourth cake, at first I thought that butterscotch candy was the Golden Snitch. Heh. Now this makes me want candy (except for the last one. Which makes me want cake.) even though I had ultra-sweet muffins for Breakfast.

Yay! Someone who gets that Garfield reference! People usually look at me funny when I do my best Garfield "candy candy candy" imitation. A coworker got it once, but we're the same age. And you and I are the same age. I'm sensing a pattern here.

Of course, I'm sure you know you can get Pocky at Epcot... that's where I first discovered it, about 7 years ago... but now that I've moved away from Fl, I've discovered that you can get at WAL-MART of all places here!!

That box has me mystified... the labels.... gotta be either edible paper or real labels, don't they?!

The Snickers cake makes me wonder what flavor the inside is... the outside, duh, obviously chocolate, but imagine the surprise if the inside was like... fruit filled or something! WHOA! MIND BLOWING!!

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UPPER?! What's that? that's a real word, what fun is a WV with a real word!?

Those cakes are all amazing, but I am especially impressed by both the shipping box cake and the asparagus cake. Wow!!! And the lemonheads cake brings me back to my days of biking with my friends to the local pharmacy to buy candy. :)

The Box cake with the candy on top of it was amazing. It's hard to believe that's it's cake. I also loved the Asparagus cake. I so want to get that for my friend who hates asparagus. hahahaha! Happy Birthday! Look I got you an asparagus cake. Oh I could have so much fun with that.

Not only is that asparagus cake astonishingly realistic... but the inside looks so delicious I had to stop myself drooling over my keyboard. That chocolate looks so rich, it's almost painful not to be able to grab a slice!

LOVE the lemonheads cake and the asparagus cake!! (i really could go for a slice of teh asparagus cake!)all are amazing!but, i am with Jennifer in thinking that that box is a box.. the labels? the one with the perforated edge hanging? the handwriting? it looks to real to be cake...

Thanks for the candy memories... as a kid an empty pop bottle was good for 2 cents worth of candy at the little neightborhood grocery store. That could take hours -- licorice pipe? wax bottle filled with sugary liquid? Mary Janes? root beer barrels? Often ended up with a long strip of paper covered with seemingly permanently affixed candy dots -- got your daily dose of sugar plus a mouthful of fiber....

Thanks for the Sunday Sweets -- kinda like a mind-cleansing before the wicked fun of the weekly Wrecks.

I live less than 2 miles from the Ferrara-Pan factory, where they MAKE Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs! If the breeze is blowing in the right direction, you can smell candy in the air. Sometimes you can even smell what they're making that day. Mmm... lemony...

I loved all the cakes; but I'll have to agree with Jennifer; the box cake is so not a cake. It is just a box. I did a close up of it; and I truly am convinced that it is just a box. The rest of the "candy" on it looks like what it is (cake), and so does that box (it looks like a used box)(not cake)Thank you;B. Weathers

I so didn't believe the shipping box was a cake and had to go to the Gateaux's cake log to see. It really is cake, a groom's cake for a wedding. Here's the pic of cutting it: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qgvxgwNCZR0/TFSjB7LF03I/AAAAAAAAAjw/ZxC-DmOW078/s1600/DefurCuttingGroomsResized.jpg

These are absolutely A-MAZE-ING! I agree with Fluffy Cow about having to decide wheather to start with the cardboard box or asparagus. And I don't think remembering Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs makes us old at all. They still make them and it was a fixture of my childhood that my grandmother had a big bowl of Fireballs out every time I went to visit :)

Pocky isn't gaining popularity in Northern CA. They have been here for years! We have them at the local mini-marts on every corner. If you don't, try the Cost Plus sort of places, they have them there too. You can get a large box, or individual serving boxes. Dipped in chocolate or strawberry... My teenagers love them. Teeny breadsticks is what I think they are.That box still looks like a box, even checking the link. They are cutting something, but you can't tell if it is the box or something in front, or just for show. In fact, in the cutting photo the box looks more like a box, it has a cardboard looking crease in the side. I would have to see a photo of the front showing the slice cut out!

My eyes are still bugging out at the box cake. HOLY SMOKES! O_O Hats off to that baker. My mind is officially blown. :)

The Pocky cake is pretty cool. Glad to know those are finally catching on in the States (we've had them here in France for years, except they're known as Mikado here). The dark chocolate ones are the best. :)

Fireballs are my favorite!! I've never been able to find them in stores, but when I was little, my brother had a huge bag of them and my sister and I would beg him for one. I only got one about three times, but I still remember. :)

The box cake is crazy! I've just been sitting here staring at it. Amazing! And if you aren't following Sweetapolita's blog you're missing out. All of her stuff is just as amazing as the asparagus cake and she shows you how to do it! And we keep Lemonheads in our candy drawer. The kids especially like the chewy ones :)

Thanks for the picture of the Pocky cake and cupcakes. My brother is sad today because the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival was supposed to be held today where we live, but all of the rain is keeping us away. This picture made him smile for the first time since seeing the rain : )

Wow, I am soooo used to you posting really crap and funny cakes that to find this little baby on my fave blog follow list is just amazing. I really love the asparagus cake, I have to try to make one in soap, Im sure I can give it a go!!

Yes, the box cake is real - I was married last year (and am from MN as well) so frequented theknot.com message boards. The bride was on the msg boards as well and posted pics b/c this was her groom's cake - I think the story behind it was that they were in a long distance relationship so would ship each other boxes of their favorite treats - so wanted to incorporate that inside info into their wedding. It is AMAZING - but Gateaux is an amazing cake company, so I wouldn't expect anything less!

I'm sorry, no. That box is not cake. No way, no how . . . nosiree Bob. If that is cake then every other "realistic" cake I've ever seen is actually a wreck. I clicked on it for a closeup on my 42 inch high deff tv and still can't believe it. The texture is perfect! The writing! The label! Please tell me that it's really just a box. I need you to restore my faith in my senses.

BTW: Happy Belated Birthday Jen! For some reason my computer wasn't allowing me onto the comments page that day. Hope you had a great one, and I'm definitely buying the new book.

I can see it right in front of my eyes and I still can't believe it. Part of me is thinking, "OK, any minute now they'll shout April, I mean, May Fools, and proclaim that they photoshopped the cake layers onto a box photo..."

I'm starting to believe we need to add a new rule of the internet -- if it exists, there is a cake of it.

If anyone is interested the bakery that made the "cardboard" box cake is on WEtv's Amazing Wedding Cakes this season and they do a lot of awesome stuff as do the other two bakeries featured this season. The new episodes air 10 pm on Sunday nights!

Wow, my favorite blog, and one of my favorite characters (PeeWee Herman) in one post!!!! Jen, you rock!

The asparagus cake is totally amazing and looks yummy. I can't get over how realistic it looks. And I concur with those who have said that the box cake doesn't look like a cake, but I'll take your word for it that it really is a cake.

Jen, I'll wish you Happy Birthday again, since the bulk of the Thursday comments got nuked, including mine. May you have many more cakey b-days!

Oh my at that asparagus cake. That looks rather yummy after you cut into it lol. Wow I am completely in awe at that box..just wow. All of these are just splendid and I would never want to cut them. Alas I would but I would be sad lol.

Candy necklaces are very popular here - this is a university town, so it's very common to see more or less grown up people doing childish things, like playing with Lego or wearing candy necklaces.

The students sometimes wear them to some of those really big and crowded parties, it's a tradition. Other traditions include (of course) not eating someone else's necklace without permission, and only using your mouth to get the candy. Those tight fit necklaces make that embarrassingly enjoyable for someone with a sensitive neck. I'll admit that I miss the university parties...

Jaime! Thank you for posting that link of the close-up slice into the box cake. I had to see it to believe it! That is some fine artistry and innovation (the edible printed labels are amazing, but the texture and precision of the box is just incredible, which I guess is why so many of us were incredulous!)

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The Lifesavers cake is less impressive: it looks like a log covered in foil and edible/inedible paper that's been printed on.

I can't imagine the passion a decorator would have in her/his craft to so lovingly render such a mundane object as a U-Haul shipping box complete with smudges and shipping labels! It's almost Zen-like in its exquisite ugliness! Seriously, I find myself staring at it and contemplating its inner sweetness.

My fave, though, is the Snickers bar, but I would be horribly disappointed if it didn't taste at least somewhat like Snickers.

WV: theakI'm going to get out my yoga mat, put on some meditation music and theak about that box cake.

4) A giant snickers bar. Yum. Although a frozen real Mars bar (not the kind you can get in the US) would be divine...

5) Love the idea of playing a prank on someone with that spectacularly well-done asparagus cake. I guess I'm as "evil" as Melanie @10:38.

6) OK, that box cake is incredible. Thank you Jaime for posting a link. I'd already figured out it was real from zooming in (that label is an example of how edible paper SHOULD be used on cakes!), but the confirmation was nice. (PS congrats on your wedding... and on your "taste" in bakers!). Your bakers skills put even Sweets-worthy bakers to shame. Wow. (FYI check out their "lobster hot tub" cake for a real giggle).

You can add me to those thanking Jamie for posting the "after" picture of that box. Even after seeing that pic, my parents still aren't convinced however. Bah. Such little faith. :-) As one who works in a mail room, dealing with boxes and express shipping labels, I admit I was doubtful as well, at first. Simply incredible! My kudos to the baker.

Nummie box= the name our oldest daughter gave to the box full of sweets. :o)

We are tickled that so many people like that cake. Imagine OUR impressions when we walked in and saw it!

We linked this to our baker and she was THRILLED that so many people were amazed by her work. She said that Sunday Sweets was the ONLY way she hoped to ever be on Cake Wrecks! HA! (Although, it's not the first time she has made it on here. http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-sweets-super-mario-wedding-cake.html )

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